Women for hire
Subtitle: prostitution and sexuality in France after 1850
By: Alain Corbin ; translated by Alan Sheridan.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Prostitution -- France -- History -- 19th century; Prostitution -- France -- History -- 20th century
Description: Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [445]-467.
Translation of: Les filles de noce.
Includes index.